Articles Tagged with Newspapers

Published on: June 24, 2016

Brexit, Huh? And the Brits Think Our Elections are Crazy

By Laura Orr

So, a one-time 52 to 48 percent [Brexit, Wikipedia article] popular vote is a solid basis for making massive economic, political, and social changes to the governance of the Not So United Kingdom and the larger European Union of 28 (at the moment) member states. Huh? Ain’t Democracy grand?!

Even tennis, baseball, soccer and basketball teams get to play more than one game to determine who wins.

We have much to learn from what happens next (and after that, and after that, …) and there will be an awful lot of discussion, hand-wringing, foreboding, fear, panic, etc. (Just like the lead up to our November 2016 elections!)

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Published on: April 26, 2012

Careers: Newspaper Death Watch

By Laura Orr

If you’re feeling a bit nervous about your chosen profession, it may (or may not) help to take a look at the Newspaper Death Watch blog.

But keep in mind that it’s one thing to ignore the past, but quite another to think you can predict the future.